Scientist: Inject Sulfur into Air to Battle Global Warming

Live Science ^ | 27 July 2006 | Sara Goudarzi

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One way to curb global warming is to purposely shoot sulfur into the atmosphere, a scientists suggested today.

The burning of fossil fuels releases carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, into the atmosphere. It also releases sulfur that cools the planet by reflecting solar radiation away from Earth.

Injecting sulfur into the second atmospheric layer closest to Earth would reflect more sunlight back to space and offset greenhouse gas warming, according to Nobel laureate Paul Crutzen from the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Germany and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego.

Crutzen suggests carrying sulfur into the atmosphere via balloons and using artillery guns to release it, where the particles would stay for up to two years. The results could be seen in six months.

http://www.livescience.com/environment/060727_inject_sulfur.html

[managusta]

Crutzen suggests carrying sulfur into the atmosphere via balloons and using artillery guns to release it.

The Israeli M109 arty is responding to this report and saving the world from Global Warming this minute. The Hezbollah are releasing the balloons and bottle rockets filled with sulfur.

[Perdogg]

wouldn't that cause acid rain?

[DoughtyOne]

And who is going to save us from this hot air?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

That was just a rumor.

[ElkGroveDan]

Reminds me of the mechanic who says you need a new head-gasket when you have clogged fuel filter. Let's just go ahead and try it and see if it works.

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Nobel laureate Paul Crutzen from the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Germany and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego.

Big title for a crazy person.

[Thrusher]

Jeeze, hasn't Brainiac ever heard of the Law of Unintended Consequences?

Even if it did "battle global warming" (whatever that means), who the hell knows what else it would do...

[gondramB]

Yep

S + O2 → SO2

2 SO2 + O2 → 2 SO3

SO3 + H2O → H2SO4 == Sulfuric acid

[King Moonracer]

If we all just eat a dozen eggs a day.... well that smells like sulfur.

[ClearCase_guy]

Fight Global Warming! Burn more soft coal!

[<1/1,000,000th%]

It would be easier to put an additive in jet fuel.

But I like the idea of artillery falling on terrorists.

[smonk]

ok, if reflecting more sunlight is the key, here's a thought.

even if the planet is getting warmer, those warmer temperatures cause more absorption from the oceans, creating more cloud cover, which will reflect more sunlight away from the planet's surface, and cause more rain, which will cause temperature moderation.

sounds eerily self regulating, doesn't it?

[Toddsterpatriot]

The burning of fossil fuels releases carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, into the atmosphere. It also releases sulfur that cools the planet by reflecting solar radiation away from Earth.

First they made us remove the sulfur. Causes acid rain you know. Now they complain that without sulfur, global warming happens. That's what we get for listening to the environmentalists in the first place.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

Then who do we sue after we get lung cancer from breathing in the sulpher?

[King Moonracer]

sounds eerily self regulating, doesn't it?

Good design, kind of intelligent-like.

[bert]

We have the solution at hand.

VTSS technology will deposit the sulfur precisely as required. This will allow use of high sulphur coal because the very tall smoke stacks will channel the ht gases exactly as required. (spell check is fickle)

[spunkets]

Eat more eggs.

[traditional1]

Shoot balloons filled with sulphur from the sky?....

BRILLIANT !

[subterfuge]

That makes about as much sense as jumping as high as you can right before your plane crashes.

[Maceman]

Good help us if people start to think that it's the government's job to conrol the weather and the climate.

If you thought planned economies sucked, just wait.